Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is an all-encompassing approach to securing and enabling
business workers' use of smartphones and tablets.
EMM typically involves some combination of mobile
device management (MDM), mobile
application management (MAM) and mobile information management. These three technologies all
address specific concerns but do not provide complete solutions to the problems that enterprise
mobility can cause or exacerbate. For example, MDM protects against unauthorized device access,
but it's powerless if the intended user forwards an email containing sensitive data to an unsecure
or malicious recipient.
There's more to enterprise mobility management than security, however. A strong EMM strategy
will also help mobile end users work more productively by providing them new tools to do their jobs
on smartphones and tablets. Enterprise
app stores or other application delivery and deployment technologies are common components of
EMM, as are identity
management systems to control user access to these new tools.
As more organizations adopt enterprise mobility management, vendors have started to productize
EMM, usually by adding MAM features to their MDM products or vice versa.